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Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:11:31 -0700
From:      Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>
To:        Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk>
Cc:        ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg 1.3.8 requested but not available?
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Joe Holden <lists@rewt.org.uk> wrote:

> Not quite, in this case I was using pkg but tried to install one port as
> there aren't any meta packages yet, it looks like the pkg repo has been
> updated but it was a case of there only being 1.3.7 in the repo, ports
> wanted 1.3.8 but 1.3.8 was the latest at the bootstrap url
>
> If that makes sense?
>

I think I understand.  Bryan Drewery has improved the wording
in one of the messages printed out by /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg/Makefile
so hopefully that should make it easier for people to upgrade:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-ports-head/2014-September/073781.html

I'm not 100% sure if it helps with your use case, but it does improve
things a bit.
--
Craig



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